Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• After the Airport Attack, Russia's Most Wanted Terrorist Hones His Message (Time.com)
• US House defeats anti-terrorism powers extension (AFP)
• House rejects extensions of Patriot Act provisions (AP)
• Clash looms over extending surveillance methods (Reuters)
• Guantanamo one of world's 'finest' prison: Rumsfeld (AFP)
• Greek bank robber blamed for deadly terror attack (AP)
• Germany charges al-Qaida suspect (AP)
• Jury convicts NY TV executive of beheading wife (AP)
• Terrorism sponsor no more? Obama hints at taking Sudan from the list. (The Christian Science Monitor)

After the Airport Attack, Russia's Most Wanted Terrorist Hones His Message (Time.com) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 06:00 PM PST Time.com - Chechen warlord Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the Moscow airport bombing, saying he orchestrated the attack in defense of Muslims across Russia

US House defeats anti-terrorism powers extension (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST AFP - The US House of Representatives rejected a nine-month extension of counter-terrorism surveillance powers at the heart of the Patriot Act adopted after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

House rejects extensions of Patriot Act provisions (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:14 PM PST AP - The House on Tuesday failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the nation's post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a slipup for the new Republican leadership that miscalculated the level of opposition.

Clash looms over extending surveillance methods (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday urged the Congress to extend for nearly three years key powers to track terrorism suspects, setting up a possible clash with Senate Republicans who have urged making them permanent.

Guantanamo one of world's 'finest' prison: Rumsfeld (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST AFP - The "war on terror" prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is "one of the finest prison systems in the world," former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

Greek bank robber blamed for deadly terror attack (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 12:44 PM PST AP - Greece's most wanted bank robber — a man who deeply embarrassed authorities by escaping from prison twice by helicopter — was involved in a militant bombing that killed a police officer last year, officials said Tuesday.

Germany charges al-Qaida suspect (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 06:42 AM PST AP - Federal prosecutors say they have charged a 25-year-old man with Turkish-German citizenship with attempting to recruit supporters for al-Qaida and procuring material that could be used to make a bomb.

Jury convicts NY TV executive of beheading wife (AP) Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST AP - The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Terrorism sponsor no more? Obama hints at taking Sudan from the list. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The United States on Monday held out the prospect of reducing its dwindling list of state sponsors of terrorism by yet another country, with both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton saying Sudan could soon be removed from the list.

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